Republican Sen. John Cornyn winning renomination and Republican Rep. Ralph Hall moving to a runoff election were among the top stories from yesterday’s vote in Texas, which held the nation’s first 2014 primares. Here’s a look at the results of...

A comeback bid and an effort to unseat history’s oldest U.S. House member top today’s ballots in Texas, the first state to hold primaries ahead of the Nov. 4 general election. The primary often is more consequential than the general...

The U.S. debt limit will be suspended for about 13 months under a measure President Barack Obama expects to sign into law. The Senate cleared the debt-limit suspension bill on a “55-43 party-line vote” yesterday that “will allow the U.S....

That’s how many senators voted yesterday for a $1.1 trillion bill funding the federal government through September. The 72-26 vote clears the legislation for President Barack Obama’s signature. The Senate vote came a day after the House passed the measure...

Rep. Steve Stockman, a Texas Republican running for the Senate, probably doesn’t have the campaign funds, political infrastructure and statewide profile to unseat Minority Whip John Cornyn in a Republican primary in fewer than eight weeks in the nation’s second-biggest...

Here’s a challenge for conservatives in Texas: Taking sides in a surprise race. And here’s the first answer: Texas Rep. Steve Stockman’s bid to unseat Sen. John Cornyn in a Republican primary won’t get the backing of the Club for...

It’s looking like the Texas congressional delegation will see little or no change in its membership in the 2014 elections. Every member of Congress from the nation’s second most-populous state up for re-election next year — 36 House members and...

Updated Oct. 6 at 9:50 am and 12:34 pm EDT On the first Sunday of the partial government shutdown, think of the talk shows as quote machines. With some ominous quotes at that: Boehner: “We are not going to pass...

Sen. John Cornyn is raising the specter of a Democratic-leaning “blue” Texas as he seeks re-election in the nation’s biggest Republican state. “Texas is now a blue state,” according to a fictitious television news report that kicks off a Cornyn...

Updated at 9:20, 10, 11:15 am and 4 pm EDT with Sam Kussin-Shoptaw reporting from the Senate “I intend to speak in support of defunding Obama-care until I am no longer able to stand. To do everything that I can...